Hot Summer Nights Dvd

Hot Summer Nights is a 2017 American neo-noir coming-of-age crime drama film written and directed by Elijah Bynum, in his filmmaking debut. It stars Timothée Chalamet, Maika Monroe, Alex Roe, Maia Mitchell, William Fichtner, Thomas Jane, Rachel O’Shaughnessy, and Emory Cohen. Set on Cape Cod in the summer of 1991, the plot follows a teenage boy Daniel Middleton who becomes entangled in the drug trade.

The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 13, 2017. It was released on June 28, 2018, through DirecTV Cinema, before beginning a theatrical limited release on July 27, 2018, by A24.

Plot

Daniel, an awkward teenager, is sent by his mother to spend the summer with his aunt on Cape Cod after the death of his father. He is not excited about it at first, but soon he meets Hunter Strawberry, the bad boy in town. While working at a convenience store, Hunter hurriedly asks Daniel to hide marijuana from approaching police officers. They later become business partners in selling drugs from a man named Dex. He provides Daniel and Hunter with the connections they need to facilitate their business but warns them about the fatal consequences if he gets crossed.

Hunter’s younger sister McKayla is the most crushed-on girl on Cape Cod. After escaping from her boyfriend at the drive-in, McKayla asks Daniel to take her home. Although Hunter forbids him to see McKayla, Daniel cannot help himself. At the summer carnival, he surprisingly kisses her, resulting in a beating by McKayla’s boyfriend and his friends. Daniel and McKayla soon start dating secretly. At the same time, Hunter develops a relationship with Amy, the daughter of Sergeant Frank Calhoun, who becomes suspicious about his daughter’s whereabouts.

Selling marijuana becomes very profitable, and Daniel and Hunter start to make a lot of money. Their success and rising tensions within their lives intertwine with the impending Hurricane Bob, soon to reach Cape Cod. Daniel wants to start selling cocaine without letting Dex know, but Dex finds out and wants Hunter to kill Daniel. Hunter tells Daniel to run and never come back, and when Dex finds Hunter, he kills him. McKayla sees her brother killed and flees town. According to the narrator, Daniel and McKayla are never seen again.

Cast

Timothée Chalamet as Daniel “Danny” Middleton
Alex Roe as Hunter Strawberry
Maika Monroe as McKayla Strawberry
Thomas Jane as Sergeant Frank Calhoun
Maia Mitchell as Amy Calhoun
Emory Cohen as Dex
William Fichtner as Shep
Jack Kesy as Ponytail
Rachel O’Shaughnessy as Erin
Shane Epstein Petrullo as Narrator (voice)